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On behalf of NBD and my students, I travel the world to learn about English-language arts programs and make connections with program reps. While traveling, I connect with school-based counselors to offer our services to help their students with artistic review prep. I share what I learn about schools and programs on our socials: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn.

View fullsize What a pleasure to visit Università Ca’Foscari in Venezia. The administrative building is house in an old villa right on a bend in the Grand Canal! Stunning view! You’ll see a video of that and another from the courtyard through a
View fullsize This was a whirlwind trip with my lovely friends! Roma, Firenze, Milano, Venezia. Four cities in four days to see ten schools! Here you’ll see us as we left Polimoda, swung by Marist’s program in Firenze, hopped a train to Milano, breezed
View fullsize POLIMODA Part II. Their other building! Modern, spacious, former factory building. The students were in the throes of putting the finishing touches on their final collections. The place was abuzz! @polimodafirenze
View fullsize This was a blast! Polimoda! We visited both locations of this famous and fabulous fashion school in Florence! This post is the Villa. Gorgeous!
View fullsize Art & Design at John Cabot University in Rome! They’ve just renovated an old building along the river to house the art & design department!
View fullsize I popped in to visit a colleague at the International School of Florence. Got to visit an art class!
View fullsize A couple of media and music business schools I learned about at a uni fair: @sae.institute @icmpuk
View fullsize Prague, Czech Republic. The Academy of Performing Arts. We toured the Music & Dance school.
View fullsize While I didn’t get to visit any schools when I was in Vienna, I went to many museums and to the Musikverein (pictured here) to listen to an evening of Mozart. No pictures were allowed so I don’t have shots of the musicians in their wigs a
View fullsize Had a terrific tour of the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan! They have so many departments! Check them out! @ccs_detroit
View fullsize At the University of Minnesota, I visited the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance and had a lovely visit with Department Chair Margaret Werry. Minneapolis is a thriving performing arts town and the department has relationships with the many profes
View fullsize Leading a presentation on “Navigating Arts Applications” at the International Association of College Admissions Counselors’ (IACAC) Regional Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. Hosted by Graded, the American School of SP. (2025)
View fullsize Met with theatre faculty at Beau Soleil College Alpin International in Ollon, Switzerland. Later, the university counselor hosted a webinar for me to speak with the arts kids. (2025)
View fullsize Met with university counselors at Leysin American School, Leysin, Switzerland (2025)
View fullsize I forgot to take a photo of my visit with arts students at the International School of Nice, so you’ll just have to look at the beautiful beach! Nice, France (2025)
View fullsize Had a great visit touring the film and drama departments at Goldsmiths, University of London! England (2025)
View fullsize Hopped a train from London to Birmingham to see the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Had a lovely visit with the head of the acting program! Birmingham, England (2025)
View fullsize Spent a week in Glasgow for IECA’s European Symposium, which included several campus visits, one of which was the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland! Glasgow, Scotland (2025)
View fullsize See me in the window! The Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow, Scotland (2025) Taking in the student art at The Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland (2025) The super-cool printmaking studio at The Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland (2025)
View fullsize Great presentation by the admissions team at The University of Glasgow, where Lord Kelvin, who invented a third measurement of temperature, was a student and later faculty. Glasgow, Scotland (2025)

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